[hibernate-dev] multiLoad support

andrea boriero andrea at hibernate.org
Mon Jul 25 14:02:19 EDT 2016


On 25 Jul 2016 19:29, "Steve Ebersole" <steve at hibernate.org> wrote:
>
> I wanted to start a consolidated discussion about multi-load support.
This
> relates to a few Jiras, questioning a few different aspects of its current
> behavior:
>
> https://hibernate.atlassian.net/browse/HHH-10984
> https://hibernate.atlassian.net/browse/HHH-10617
>
> Basically this comes down to the following questions/requests...
>
>
> ## Handling locally deleted entities
>
> First (from HHH-10984) is the idea that locally deleted entities are
> currently returned from multi-load calls.  The background here is that
> multi-load support was designed based on IdentifierLoadAccess#getReference
> (Session#load).  So its outcome follows what is done for #getReference in
> terms of behavior and results.  Now one of the behaviors of #getReference
> that differs from IdentifierLoadAccess#load (Session#get) is how locally
> deleted entities are treated: #getReference will return them, whereas
#load
> will not.
>
> So as I see it we have 3 options:
>
>    1. Continue to expose just the one form on MultiIdentifierLoadAccess
and
>    either have this filter out the locally deleted objects, or add a new
>    option to specify whether locally deleted objects ought to be returned
in
>    the results.
>    2. Expose 2 distinct forms on MultiIdentifierLoadAccess:
>       1. Plural form of #getReference (current behavior, more or less)
>       2. Plural form of #load
>    3. Expose 3 distinct forms on MultiIdentifierLoadAccess:
>       1. Plural form of #getReference
>       2. Plural form of #load
>       3. "Hybrid" form
>
>
I am inclined towards the 2 plural forms
> ## Ordering of results
>
> Much of the discussion on HHH-10984 revolves around the (poorly based,
imo)
> assumption that because a List/array of ids is passed in and because a
List
> is returned that we ought to return the results in the order indicated by
> the incoming List/array of ids.
>
> While I do not agree with the assumption there, I can see that that
> behavior might sometimes be beneficial.  Is this something we want to
> support?  There is certainly a performance overhead, and so I think we
> definitely do not want to support it by default.  But do we want to expose
> an option to allow users to request this?
>
+1 for exposing an option for ordering the results
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